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Masthead, Cardozo Journal Of Equal Rights & Social Justice, Vol. 29 (2022–23)

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

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Table Of Contents - Cardozo Journal Of Equal Rights & Social Justice, Vol. 29, Iss. 1

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

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The Various Problems And Instabilities With The Implementation Of The Special Immigrant Juvenile Status Statute, Calli Schmitt

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The note examines the Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) statute, highlighting its purpose to protect vulnerable immigrant children who have been abused, neglected, or abandoned. However, the implementation of SIJS faces significant challenges, including inconsistent state court interpretations, political interference, and visa backlogs, which undermine its humanitarian goals. The note proposes reforms to address these issues and ensure that SIJS beneficiaries receive the protections and pathways to permanent residency intended by Congress.

Annotated Legal Bibliography

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

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Measuring The Effect Of Bipartisan Support For Foreign Policy Initiatives In The Senate On U.S. Policy Success, Emily Fitkin

Honors Capstones

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Approximation By Basis Pursuit: Background And Application To The Construction Of Efficient Spline Approximations, Babita Timalsina

Graduate Student Scholarship

Basis Pursuit was developed primarily as a tool in the field of signal processing, beginning in the mid 1990’s. The idea is to model the behavior of discrete signals using a wide range of functional behaviors and scales and to obtain an accurate and efficient representation of the signal using a minimal number of functions from a large “dictionary” of possible behaviors. The key observation is by formulating the representation as an ℓ1 optimization, the problem can be posed as a linear program so that the optimal solution uses no more than the number of constraints - it must be …

Amphibian Collapses Increased Malaria Incidence In Central America, Michael R. Springborn, Joakim A. Weill, Karen R. Lips, Roberto Ibáñez, Aniruddha Ghosh

All Peer-Reviewed Publications

Biodiversity in ecosystems plays an important role in supporting human welfare, including regulating the transmission of infectious diseases. Many of these services are not fully-appreciated due to complex environmental dynamics and lack of baseline data. Multicontinental amphibian decline due to the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) provides a stark example. Even though amphibians are known to affect natural food webs—including mosquitoes that transmit human diseases—the human health impacts connected to their massive decline have received little attention. Here we leverage a unique ensemble of ecological surveys, satellite data, and newly digitized public health records to show an empirical link between …

Ut Archival Collections At The Mcgovern Historical Center, Matt Richardson

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

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Give 2 History: Secure The Past, Sandra Yates

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

October is Archives Month! The TMC Library is celebrating with a special opportunity to support the McGovern Historical Center. Help the McGovern Historical Center secure the history of the Texas Medical Center.

Defining Aviation “Skills” To Ensure Effective, Safe, And Efficient Evaluations: A Qualitative Study, Jorge L. D. Albelo Ph.D., Haydee M. Cuevas, Marisa Aguiar, Christopher Piccone, Karlene Petitt, Raquel Villagomez

Publications

The present qualitative case study strives to define the term skill within aviation, drawing from the cognitive psychology, organizational psychology, and training literature as well as input from subject matter experts in the aviation industry. A review of the published literature revealed no consensus for defining what constitutes a skill. While some definitions follow a task-based approach, others emphasize more cognitively based representations. Moreover, a formal, commonly accepted definition of the term skill within the aviation domain is lacking. The researchers employed a qualitative case study methodology to extract true descriptions from the subject matter experts to bound and expand …

0880: Don Ferguson Sheet Music Collection, 1850-1981, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

Don Ferguson’s collection consists of 358 individual pieces of piano sheet music spanning the first seven decades of the 20th century. There are also two string quartette scores named Quartette by Mozart and Beethoven for two violins, viola, and cello. They were published in Leipzig, Germany in the 1940s and were given to Mr. Ferguson by a member of the Bern, Switzerland Symphony Orchestra.

Stable Coexistence Or Competitive Exclusion? Fern Endophytes Demonstrate Rapid Turnover Favoring A Dominant Fungus, Brett Steven Younginger, Nathan U. Stewart, Mehmet Ali Balkan, Daniel J. Ballhorn

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Fungal endophytes are critical members of the plant microbiome, but their community dynamics throughout an entire growing season are underexplored. Additionally, most fungal endophyte research has centred on seed-reproducing hosts, while spore-reproducing plants also host endophytes and may be colonized by unique community members. In order to examine annual fungal endophyte community dynamics in a spore-reproducing host, we explored endophytes in a single population of ferns, Polystichum munitum, in the Pacific Northwest. Through metabarcoding, we characterized the community assembly and temporal turnover of foliar endophytes throughout a growing season. From these results, we selected endophytes with outsized representations in …

Informatics Approaches For Capturing Dynamic Gene Expression And Regulation, Fangfang Yan

Dissertations and Theses (Open Access)

Cellular systems are regulated through dynamic and complex mechanisms that involve various signalling and gene regulations. Aberrant changes may disrupt the system, leading to disease development. Time-series data analysis includes the analysis of datasets from multiple time points, which is essential to capture dynamic gene expression and regulation. Although many efforts have been put into the time-series gene expression analysis, limited studies have explored both gene expression and regulation in a time-series manner. Our study proposed the first time specific informatics approach by integrating two critical regulators, TF and miRNA, and investigated their co-regulations. Specifically, we collected time-series bulk-tissue sequencing …

Development Of Enabling Technologies For Genomic Analysis, Su Wang

Dissertations and Theses (Open Access)

Background The advance of sequencing techniques has promoted gene expression profiling. Numerous methods have also been developed to estimate genetic relatedness, or kinship. However, many problems still exist that limit gene expression data utility, governance, and kinship inference. The expanding size of gene expression datasets due to the growing number of samples and diverse sequencing conditions makes it expensive for both local storage and online sharing. In addition, the current kinship estimation approaches suffer from high computational requirements, untenable assumptions of homogeneous population ancestry, and genetic privacy concerns, especially when finding unknown familial relationships in 3rd party databases and reporting …

Disease Concept Normalization For Clinical Documents Using Deep Learning And Knowledge Graphs, Jingqi Wang

Dissertations and Theses (Open Access)

Medical concept normalization, also known as entity linking, is a crucial component of clinical information extraction. It maps entity mentions in free-text format to a controlled vocabulary, such as the Unified Medical Language System, to improve interoperability between different healthcare institutions and enable a wide range of applications in biomedical research and clinical practice. Data-driven methods of concept normalization, such as deep learning-based algorithms (DL), have the flexibility to handle various text variations. However, they require large-scale data annotation and are susceptible to confusion with ambiguous cases, such as medical abbreviations, acronyms, and polysemy. On the other hand, biomedical knowledge …

Proposing A Conceptual Model Of The Unintended Consequences Of Health Information Technology Policy, Nina Smith

Dissertations and Theses (Open Access)

Per the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), there is a lack of frameworks to guide research on the unintended consequences of health information technology (HIT) policy. To address this need, this research focused on the mandated use of the Texas prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP). The research’s aims were to determine the effects on, and experiences of prescribers and pharmacists as they complied with mandated PDMP use through (1) a systematic literature review, (2) semistructured interviews of prescribers and pharmacists analyzed using a grounded theory methodology and, by combining the results of the …

Spatial Information Extraction From Radiology Reports, Sarabhi Datta

Dissertations and Theses (Open Access)

Radiology reports contain a radiologist’s interpretations of images, and these images frequently describe spatial relations between radiological entities. Important radiographic findings are mostly documented in the reports in reference to an anatomical structure along with other clinically-relevant contextual information through spatial expressions. The spatially-grounded radiological entities mainly include clinical findings and medical devices. Although much work has focused on radiology information extraction, spatial language understanding in the radiology domain has remained less explored. The language used for representing spatial relations is complex and varied. Therefore, we aim to encode granular spatial information in the reports and automatically extract this important …

Redefining The Catalytic Hect Domain Boundaries For The Hect E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Family, Emma I. Kane, Steven A. Beasley, Johanna M. Schafer, Justine E. Bohl, Young Sun Lee, Kayla J. Rich, Elizabeth F. Bosia, Donald E. Spratt

Chemistry

There are 28 unique human members of the homologous to E6AP C-terminus (HECT) E3 ubiquitin ligase family. Each member of the HECT E3 ubiquitin ligases contains a conserved bilobal HECT domain of approximately 350 residues found near their C-termini that is responsible for their respective ubiquitylation activities. Recent studies have begun to elucidate specific roles that each HECT E3 ubiquitin ligase has in various cancers, age-induced neurodegeneration, and neurological disorders. New structural models have been recently released for some of the HECT E3 ubiquitin ligases, but many HECT domain structures have yet to be examined due to chronic insolubility and/or …

Kansas Speaks Fall 2022 Statewide Public Opinion Survey, Brett Zollinger Ph.D., Jian Sun Ph.D., Michael Walker M.S., Marisa M. Johnson M.B.A., Leslie Watson-Divittore M.S., Wesley Davis M.S.

Docking Institute of Public Affairs

The 2022 Kansas Speaks fall survey was conducted from September 19 to October 2, 2022. A panel of 520 adult residents of Kansas age 18 and older were surveyed online to assess their attitudes and opinions regarding various issues of interest to Kansas citizens.

Contested Agile Combat Employment: A Site-Selection Methodology, Zachary T. Moer, Christopher M. Chini, Peter P. Feng, Steven J. Schuldt

Faculty Publications

Numerous factors complicate ACE site-selection decisions including peer-to-peer threats, complex geopolitics, and resource requirements. The proposed site-selection framework identifies existing airports best suited for strategic utilization to support combatant commands as they optimize agile combat employment infrastructure.

Synthesis Of 1,2,3-Triazole-Thymol Derivatives As Potential Antimicrobial Agents, Justice Kwaku Addo, Ernest Owusu-Ansah, Nicholas T.K.D. Dayie, Xavier Cheseto, Baldwyn Torto

All Peer-Reviewed Publications

Background: Thymol as a natural biological template can be modified chemically since the hydroxyl group makes it a candidate for structural modification. Thus, this study incorporated the triazole moiety on thymol and the chlorination of thymol moiety to help improve its biological potency. Materials and methods: A series of ten 1,2,3-triazole-thymol derivatives 1–10 were synthesized from thymol, by a click reaction between O-propargyl terminal alkyne of thymol and its chlorothymol with benzyl azide and substituted benzyl azides. Their structures were confirmed by spectroscopic methods (1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, IR, GC-MS-EI/CI and LC-ESI-QTOF-MS). The Well diffusion method using Müeller-Hinton agar plates was used …

Learning Opportunities 2022/2023, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

Course Catalogs

The graduation requirements of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy are established by the IMSA Board of Trustees. Each semester students must take a minimum of five academic courses (2.5 credits) for a letter grade (not Pass/Fail) not including Fine Arts, Wellness, SIR, Internship, and Independent Study. Students may enroll in a maximum of nine courses each semester including academic courses, Fine Arts, Wellness, SIR, Internship, and Independent Study. The College and Academic Counselor approves enrollment for students in all courses and experiences. Only courses taken for a letter grade will count towards graduation credit.

The Constitutionality Of Texas’ Executive Orders Impacting The U.S.–Mexico Border, Beckett Cantley, Geoffrey Dietrich

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

“Federalism, central to the constitutional design, adopts the principle that both the National and State Governments have elements of sovereignty the other is bound to respect. From the existence of two sovereigns follows the possibility that laws can be in conflict or at cross-purposes.” The Supremacy Clause “provides a clear rule that federal law shall be the supreme Law of the Land.” Under this principle, Congress may preempt state laws that interfere or conflict with federal laws. United States courts have held that issues of immigration, and as they relate to national security or border security, are clearly federal and …

The Pacifican October 2022, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

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The Affection In Between : From Common Sense To Sensing In Common, April Flakne

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

Exposing a fundamental but forgotten capacity to sense with others, this fresh approach to ethics centers on expressive, moving bodies in everyday affective encounters.

Common sense has yet to yield its golden promise: robust selves, a stable sense of reality, and bonds of solidarity. The Affection in Between argues that reimagining common sense involves tackling two intractable philosophical puzzles together: the problems of sensory integration and of “other minds.” Construing common sense as either an individual cognitive capacity or a communal body of beliefs and practices, as our tradition of philosophical and political thought has done for too long, constricts …

Fall 2022: Relaunch

The Weldon Times

A student-run publication from the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editor in Chief: Madeline Heinke

Stemficohort1preinterviewdata, Rebecca L. Sansom, Bryn Stclair, Jamie Jensen, Richard West

ScholarsArchive Data

The science, technology, engineering, and mathematics faculty institute (STEMFI) is a National Science Foundation funded project designed to provide support, measurement, and training to BYU faculty developing their own student-centered curriculum.

This PDF file contains pre-institute participation interview data from the first cohort of faculty involved in the STEM faculty institute (2018).

Check Out The Library, 2022 Fall Issue, Cal Poly Humboldt Library

Library Publications

Table of Contents

• Innovation & Makerspace @ Cal Poly Humboldt Library
• The Press Offers Free eBook Downloads of Fiction Titles
• Two New Librarians Join the Cal Poly Humboldt Library Team
• The Brain Booth is Back!
• Library Welcome Back Open House!
• Welcome to the New Makerspace
• SkillShops Help Students Take Control of their Academic Careers
• The Brian D. Tripp Papers
• Events
• Voter Education at Cal Poly Humboldt

Social Interaction With Native Speakers’ Effect On Foreign Language Enjoyment And Foreign Language Anxiety, Emma Stravers

Selected Honors Theses

This study yielded data surrounding the relationship between knowing a native speaker and foreign language acquisition, alongside the factors of foreign language enjoyment and foreign language anxiety. Through a survey conducted with 46 language learners from a variety of backgrounds who were contacted through social media, the research questions guiding the study were answered with implications for all language learners both inside and outside the classroom. Through statistical analysis, data proved that knowing a native speaker of the target language is a significant predictor of language learners having a higher perception of proficiency. A higher perception of proficiency is also …

Gurney Derby At Homecoming, 2007, Uab Archives

Images of the Month from UAB Archives

Image ID: A2018-06P

UAB Homecoming Gurney Derby, 2007